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Issue 38, Volume 77
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Bauer real estate club forges partnership Houston apartment association to work with program to expand degree offerings, improve rank Julian Jimenez
THE DAILY COUGAR As part of an initiative to create a nationally competitive program at the University, the UH Graduate Real Estate Club has partnered with the Houston Apartment Association and the Texas Apartment Association Education Foundation to provide leadership, resources and support for students. “Combined, HAA and TAAEF have pledged $153,000 to the UH Grad RE Program Leadership Campaign to be funded
over three years,” John Walsh, director of the Graduate Real Estate Program, said in an email. “These funds will underwrite the cost of developing the Grad RE Program during its initial three years of development here at Bauer College of Business. This will include development of courses relating to MF (multi-family) Residential business.” According to the program development plan for the initiative, the partnership aims to build a strong foundation for real estate degrees at UH by recruiting experienced professionals and expanding current course offerings for a real estate certificate to support a full-fledged master’s degree. “The University of Houston is in a unique position to develop a nationally competitive
program with its growing excellence in academic stature and its location in Houston’s dynamic real estate marketplace,” the plan stated. Keith Richards, the president of the Bauer Graduate Real Estate Club, said that the partnership will also be a huge boon for students looking for hands-on experience. “They’re going to help us out with internships, mentorships and career support as well as helping get the students out into the industry at mixers,” Richards said. The partnership will give Houston real estate companies a source of educated and high-quality workers to draw from. Emily Hilton, the vice president for HAA, was present at a social earlier this month that introduced students to the multifamily
development industry. She said that the event was valuable for student outreach. “This is kind of a different approach — this is taking from the top down, trying to get those folks that are at the executive level and wooing them into multifamily, making them aware of all the career options they have at that level,” Hilton said. The program has high hopes for the future of real estate education at Bauer. “The money, the affiliation, all the programs we’re putting on with them all go to improving that program and making it something that students actually come to the MBA program at UH to be a part of,” Richards said. news@thedailycougar.com
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FACULTY AND STAFF
Lecture speaker to discuss 2008 Texas polygamist raid
Alumnus wins award for overcoming disability
The UH Department of Sociology is kicking off a new lecture series, “Sociology in Action,” with the first guest speaker, UH Sociology Alumni, Professor Stuart A. Wright, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today in Agnes Arnold Auditorium 1. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact the Sociology Department at 713-743-3940. — Alana MousaviDin
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GREEK LIFE
Sorority hosts pink out game for breast cancer awareness Zeta Tau Alpha’s Gamma Omega chapter is hosting its first annual “Houston Cougar Pink Out” at the UH football game against Rice on Thursday at Robertson Stadium. “We’ve seen tremendous success at Texans and other NFL games,” Chelsea Snyder, the president of the Gamma Omega chapter said. “Other collegiate teams also participate in Pink Out games. There is no reason a Tier One institution such as the University of Houston should not be participating,” The women’s fraternity will hand out pink ribbons and breast cancer education and awareness at gate entrances and tailgates. “UH Athletics doesn’t support us this year; they don’t think we will have success in this,” Maddie Miller, service chairman for the fraternity said. “We want to prove them wrong.” — Cougar News Services
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he University’s Children’s Learning Center hosted a Homecoming pep rally for children of students, faculty and staff on Thursday. The UH marching band came to the center to perform songs for those in attendance as parents lined up with their children to watch the festivities. | Taylor Cox/The Daily Cougar
For serving as an example of the success one can achieve by overcoming disability, UH staff member Karl Hearne was named recipient of the 2011 Houston Mayor’s Citizen’s Accessibility Recourses for Empowerment Award. Hearne collected the accolade at the third annual National Disability Awareness Month on Friday at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center Gymnasium. Hearne, who serves as Assistant to the Vice President for Community Relations and Institutional Access, was given the award for his “unyielding commitment to overcome his physical challenges and for sharing his talents and abilities with his community.” “There’s no such thing as a bad day,” Hearne said. “My life is a living testimony of what can be done when others say it cannot.” Hearne was born two months premature to his mother and father that were faced with a decision that would effect his life forever. “Doctors told my parents to put me in a home, but my mother said no,” Hearne said. “From then on I was determined to face every obstacle presented to me.” Cerebral palsy is an umbrella
term that groups different motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, particularly in body movement. The United Cerebral Palsy Foundation estimates that nearly 800,000 people in the US are living with one or more of the symptoms of cerebral palsy. “I made several promises to God when I came to the University of Houston,” Hearne said. “I told Him if He would allow me to get an education, I would help others. “When life seems impossible to keep going, I look around and always find somebody worse off than me.” Hearne has earned an undergraduate degree in consumer science and a master’s degree in human resource development at UH. Proud to be a Cougar Hearne said he hopes everyone at the University would show some improvement in school spirit, and that he feels a responsibility to improve UH. “School spirit starts with each of us having pride to be here,” Hearne said. “I still have my acceptance letter, dated Valentines Day 2001. Red and white is in my heart, and I’ll do all I can to make the University better.” news@thedailycougar.com